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Somewhere on the streets of Watch Dogs’ virtual Chicago, you might run into Aisha Tyler. Or, if you’re not careful, run over her.

Watch Dogs is unique among open-world action games in that every one of its hundreds of characters has a name, occupation and personal details, which vigilante hacker Aiden Pearce can access with a simple smartphone scan. One of these virtual citizens is actor/writer/comedian Aisha Tyler, probably best known as Charlie Wheeler from the later seasons of Friends or as super-spy Lana Kane on the animated Archer.

“The way to explain what I do in Watch Dogs is to think about the Watch Dogs universe,” says Tyler, an avid gamer herself. “From the things that I’ve seen and the amount of time I’ve spent playing the game, the world is incredibly rich. Every single moment of that game is playable, and that playability is random and complex and almost unrepeatable.”

Tyler won’t divulge exactly how she fits into the game, except to say that she’s not part of the primary storyline but rather one of the many non-player characters, or NPCs, living in this virtual Chicago. Albeit one with a purpose.

“Don’t think about the NPCs as people who just walk through the space and populate the world and provide texture,” says Tyler. “Think about them as interactive, encounterable beings that have their own rich universe, and at any moment something can jump off with one of them.”